How clean is your MP - the full list
Just for completeness, thought I'd post the complete list of cleaning expenses claimed by the North East and Cumbria's MPs.
These were claimed for cleaning their second homes - most of which were in London but some counted their constituency home as their second one.
They come from the last published expenses which were 2007-8. 2008-9's list is due out soon.
Sir Stuart Bell appears to have avoided any action because he says he didn't claim at all in 2008-9 even though he'd claimed more than £2000 a year for the previous four years.
You can watch him on the Politics Show here, confirming that no MP will be able to claim for cleaning their second home ever again.
Now I'm leaving cleaning firmly alone. My own home needs some attention for a start, but of course I do all my cleaning myself!
Phil Willis (Lib Dem, Harrogate and Knaresborough) £2990
John Cummings (Labour, Easington) £2400
Denis Murphy (Labour, Wansbeck) £2400
Stephen Byers (Labour, Tyneside North) £2300
Sir Stuart Bell (Labour, Middlesbrough) £2200
Stephen Hepburn (Labour, Jarrow) £2030
Alan Beith (Lib Dem, Berwick) £1983
Sharon Hodgson (Labour, Gateshed East and Washington West) £1560
Ann McIntosh (Conservative, Vale of York) £1363
Frank Cook (Labour, Stockton North) £1215
Bill Etherington (Labour, Sunderland North) £1200
Alan Milburn (Labour, Darlington) £1152
Doug Henderson (Labour, Newcastle North) £1095
David Clelland (Labour, Tyne Bridge) £1056
Jim Cousins (Labour, Newcastle Central) £1027
David Maclean (Conservative, Penrith and the Border) £1024
William Hague (Conservative, Richmond) £960
Nick Brown (Labour, Newcastle East) £897
Helen Goodman (Labour, Bishop Auckland) £765
Ronnie Campbell (Labour, Blyth) £740
Ashok Kumar (Labour, Middlesbrough South and Cleveland East £720
David Curry (Conservative, Skipton and Ripon) £720
John Hutton (Labour, Barrow and Furness) £545
Chris Mullin (Labour, Sunderland South) £510
Fraser Kemp (Labour, Houghton and Washington) £500
Hilary Armstrong (Labour, Durham NW) £480
Alan Campbell (Labour, Tynemouth) £480
Iain Wright (Labour, Hartlepool) £420
Dari Taylor (Labour, Stockton South) £350
Vera Baird (Labour, Redcar) £305
David Miliband (Labour, South Shields) £300
Eric Martlew (Labour, Carlisle) £160
Dave Anderson (Labour, Blaydon) £145
John Greenaway (Conservative, Ryedale) £140
Kevan Jones (Labour, Durham North) £33
Roberta Blackman Woods (Labour, City of Durham) £0
Tony Cunningham (Labour, Workington) £0
Tim Farron (Lib Dem, Westmorland and Lonsdale) £0
Robert Goodwill (Conservative, Scarborough and Whitby) £0
Jamie Reed (Labour, Copeland) £0
I'm Richard Moss, the Ö÷²¥´óÐã's Political Editor for the North East and Cumbria. Welcome to my irreverent - but hopefully insightful - northern take on reporting politics for Look North and the Politics Show.
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